             (ingest-events/publish-tombstone-delete-msg
              context concept-type concept-id revision-id))))
 
-      ;; update service/tool associations if applicable, i.e. when the concept is a service/tool,
+      ;; publish service/tool association update events if applicable, i.e. when the concept is a service/tool,
       ;; so that the collections can be updated in elasticsearch with the updated service/tool info
-      (update-service-associations context concept-type concept-id)
-      (update-tool-associations context concept-type concept-id)
+      (publish-service-association-update-events context concept-type concept-id)
+      (publish-tool-association-update-events context concept-type concept-id)
       (ingest-events/publish-event
        context
        (ingest-events/concept-update-event concept))

                         msg/concept-does-not-exist
                         concept-id)))))

(defn- update-service-associations
  "Create a new revision for the non-tombstoned service associations that is related to the
  given concept; Does noting if the given concept is not a service concept."
  [context concept-type concept-id]
  (when (= :service concept-type)
    (let [search-params (cutil/remove-nil-keys

          associations (filter #(= false (:deleted %))
                               (search/find-concepts context search-params))]
      (doseq [association associations]
        (ingest-events/publish-event
          context
         (ingest-events/concept-update-event association))))))

(defn- publish-tool-association-update-events 
  "Publish a concept-update-event for each non-tombstoned tool associations that is related to the
  given concept; This is to trigger the reindexing of the associated collections in elastic
  search when tool is updated because tool info is indexed into the associated collections.
  Does noting if the given concept is not a tool concept."
  [context concept-type concept-id]
  (when (= :tool concept-type)
    (let [search-params (cutil/remove-nil-keys
